Especially in the middle act, where it meanders due to being too flashback heavy. While there is a good deal to recommend, there are some glaring problems. Chapter 1 is the better film, but the second film is better than the second half of the mini-series on the whole and again it is a more than admirable and brave attempt at adapting an extremely difficult and near-unfilmable book. The mixed reception is more than understandable but it is not as terrible as the more negative reviews say in my view. Actually did find a lot to like about it, with a lot of what was great about the first film still here, and for me it is better than has been said. Absolutely loved the first 'IT' film from 2017 and consider it better than the mini-series personally. The 1990 mini-series is an uneven one, with a great first half and disappointing second half with the ending and IT's true form having notoriously poor reputations for good reasons. Stephen King's novel is a masterpiece, didn't properly appreciate it on first read but with King's style being much more familiar to me (whereas it was a bit of a shock at first) it still stands as a genuinely scary, nostalgic, at times very funny and very powerful book and one of his best.
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